Crowded
['kraʊdɪd]
Definition
(adj.) overfilled or compacted or concentrated; 'a crowded theater'; 'a crowded program'; 'crowded trains'; 'a young mother's crowded days' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Crowd
Typist: Virginia
Examples
- Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was crowded now with the family and the wedding guests. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We must look some time among its crowded decks before we shall find again our humble friend Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So I and the vice-president of the company, Mr. Mallory, crowded through the manhole to see why the ore would not come down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The others crowded around him, and even two who had hold of Gurth relaxed their grasp while they stretched their necks to see the issue of the search. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We were eating at the inn from where the buses leave and the room was crowded and people were singing and there was difficulty serving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Students had to come at great cost to themselves to this crowded centre because there was no other way of gathering even scraps of knowledge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was instantly made prisoner, and pulled from his horse by two or three of the banditti who crowded around him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A number of persons crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few minutes and even render it mortal, as in the Black Hole at Calcutta. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Four raw new towns, and many ugly industrial hamlets were crowded under his dependence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The streets will be crowded, so I trust that you may be in safety. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The train was unusually crowded, and there was great confusion in getting the luggage. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The little pleasure-launch was fussing out from the shore, twanging its music, crowded with people, flapping its paddles. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Everything is quite ready--there is always somebody here--I always put people up--I love having the house crowded. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These all crowded about their associate as he whispered a few words to the Jew; and then turned round and grinned at Oliver. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The air in crowded buildings, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- That train was always crowded. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Nay, what a world of reasons crowded upon her against any movement of her thought towards a future that might reverse the decision of this day! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I expect several persons to call to-day, and it will be inconvenient to have the avenues to the house crowded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then they went out, and the place was soon crowded, and there was considerable excitement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The next day as I was returning home from my solitary walk, reflections, the most despondingly melancholy, crowded on my mind. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But, by and by, she was struck with an unusual heaving among the mass of people in the crowded road on which she was entering. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We were much crowded. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The little party had crowded so completely round Mr. Tupman, that they could not yet clearly discern the nature of the accident. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Drury Lane was crowded. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The mudfish would have seemed then a poor refugee from the too crowded and aggressive life of the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I immediately said I would explain the document, and they crowded around. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was all cold, somehow small, crowded, and like the end of the world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Virginia